NASA James Webb Space Telescope replaces Hubble
Topic: Technology News
Posted on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
NASA plans to replace the Hubble telescope with the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in June of 2013.
The Hubble telescope was launched in 1990. The new $4.5bn JWST telescope will take up a position some 1.5 million km (930,000 miles) from Earth and will have with 24m length, 12m height and a mirror with a 6.5 in diameter a size that is 3 times of Hubble.
NASA wants to look deeper into space and even further back at the origins of the universe with the JWST.
More details on BBC News.
Posted on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
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